Port of Oslo's efforts in marketing Oslo as a cruise port are paying of. The last years we have seen a significant increase in cruise traffic. Port of Oslo's annual statistics 2009 shows a 13 per cent increase in cruise passengers totalling to approximately 270 000, despite the economic downturn. Goods traffic and international ferries' passenger traffic, however, declined last year.

Fred Kamperman hopes for new lines to Sjursøya Container Terminal in the near future.
- Our main task is to get new lines and more traffic to the terminal, says the new manager of the terminal since 18. January 2010.

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The route around the world of “The Millennium Odyssey”

2009 is the millennial celebration of the first mention of Lithuania’s name. "Ambersail" visits Oslo on 9th of June - 10th of June, at Vippetangen quay. 11 crews of sailors on rotation is taking part in the voyage, facing the challenges of the sea and the elements. Around 120 Lithuanian sailors will participate in this route. In nine months, the yacht will visit 26 Lithuanian communities in 20 countries in 5 continents.

A Volkswagen Golf Bluemotion was welcomed by journalists and dock workers. Harald A.Møller AS has imported over 1 million cars via Port of Oslo.

04.06.09 - 06:00 hrs: No strike, negosiations suceeded.

27.05.09 - 19.00 hrs: Agreement about delaying the mediation dead line to 3rd of June - 24.00 hrs.

Due to the ongoing tariff negotiations in the Municipality of Oslo there is a risk of strike in the Port from 3. of May 24.00 hrs. If strike the following areas will run with very low activity : cranes (goods handling), cleaning and accountants' department.

For more information please contact: Tel: +47 815 00 606, or +47 23 49 26 50

If strike among the pilots at the Norwegain Coastal Administration the vessel traffic will be affected. For more information wwww.kystverket.no or pilot master  +47 916 96 997.

The customs and excise authorities new boat T/K Snøgg was christened by The Minister of Finance Kristin Halvorsen on the 11. of May. The boats main purpose is to prevent smuggling of drug, alcohol and other criminal and excise offences in the fjord nearby Oslo. 

The first cruise ship arrives on Monday the 20. of April, and during the summer over 250.000 passengers will visit Oslo and its sights. The Port of Oslo is very pleased with 150 cruise ship visiting Oslo this season.

A container is purchased in order to prevent leakage of dangerous waste from containers being unloaded. The Port of Oslo KF shall secure a satisfactory level of environmental protection of which this container is a part.

Only ice stopps these ladies from taking their icebath twice a week in different bathing facilities in the Port of Oslo. Turid (69), Anne Ragnhild (66) and Astrid (67) have replaced their sunhats and beach sandals with woolcaps and socks.

In it's second spring, the Oslo Opera House might see it's visitor number 1 million. The new opera house is situated in Bjørvika. One of the oldest ports in Oslo. Bjørvika is developing very fast with new housing and cultural institutions. The neighbourhood is a mix between containers,cruiseships and ferries.

As one of the first ports in Europe together with port of Rotterdam the ports sources of emissions has been calculated. The footprint will be presented at  C 40 World ports climate conference 9-11 July in Rotterdam.

In May several vessels struggeled to get a dock accommodation at Vippetangen, port of Oslo. Until Sunday the port will have eleven different vessels visiting.

The new containerterminal at Sjursøya opened for traffic 21 January 2008. The terminal is operated by Finnsteve/Norsteve and has a capacity of 143 000 TEU. Sjursøya containerterminal will in the future fully developed  have a capacity of 450 000 TEU.

P&O’s Aurora visited Oslo on a winter cruise two years ago. Now another two cruise lines follow the example to go north in the winter. We do look forward to welcome the passengers to a winter experience in the capital of Norway

• Artemis, P & O, Dec. 9
• Queen Elizabeth 2, Cunard, Dec. 10
• Black Watch, Fred.Olsen, Dec. 11
• Queen Victoria, Cunard, Dec. 16

The new crane arrived on the 26. of September and will be placed on the new quey at Sjursøya terminal. Eventually it will take over the work that today is done at Filipstad.
The SSG-crane weighs 640 tonnes, lifts 40 tonnes and rises 77 meters above the ground.

The harbour dues for 2006 can be downloaded by following the link below.

The dredging at Pipervika restarted Tuesday 13 of March. An inspection has been carried out to limit the sea bed where there is a large number of bricks and rubble.The dredging will be terminated before Easter and the remaining areas finished next summer.

“Ren Oslofjord” is the municipal plan for remediation of contaminated sediments in the Oslo fjord. It is part of the Oslo city plan.

Color Magic is here

Color Line’s new cruise ferry, Color Magic, arrived to the Hjortnes quey yesterday. The vessel will be a sister ship to the Color Fantasy and will start running between Oslo and Kiel next week.